SINGAPORE, July 21 — Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong did not state that Transport Minister S. Iswaran had been arrested when they spoke...
SINGAPORE, July 21 — Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong did not state that Transport Minister S. Iswaran had been arrested when they spoke about the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau’s probe on July 12 as disclosing such information was CPIB’s “call to make”, the Pofma Office said yesterday.
When Lee and Wong spoke about the probe on July 12, they had said that Iswaran was assisting CPIB with an investigation, the statement added. Later on July 14, CPIB provided an update in response to media queries, stating that Iswaran and Ong Beng Seng had been arrested on July 11, and subsequently released on bail.
It added that the article had falsely stated that Lee and Wong did not want to disclose the fact of Iswaran’s arrest when they made public statements on July 12 because it was “politically embarrassing”.
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